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Grainger, Peter R.; Adie, Lenore – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Despite the acknowledged importance of assessment in education, there has been minimal research into the preparation of preservice teachers for the important role of involving preservice teachers in marking, grading, moderating and providing feedback on student work. This article reports on a pilot project in which preservice teachers participated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Educational Assessment, Pilot Projects
Okumura, Taichi – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
This study examined the empirical differences between the tendency to omit items and reading ability by applying tree-based item response (IRTree) models to the Japanese data of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) held in 2009. For this purpose, existing IRTree models were expanded to contain predictors and to handle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Reading Ability
Marlow, Ruth; Norwich, Brahm; Ukoumunne, Obioha C.; Hansford, Lorraine; Sharkey, Siobhan; Ford, Tamsin – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) arose from a government drive to increase the amount of teacher-based assessment within school and to make this consistent across schools. We conducted semi-structured interviews with head teachers to gain insight into how their schools applied APP and we compared the APP levels for English and Maths, provided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Literacy, Numeracy
Leong, Wei Shin – Music Education Research, 2014
With the articulation of new "Holistic and Balanced Assessment" initiatives in Singaporean schools, a new standard of conceptualising and enacting classroom assessment is expected of Singaporean teachers. This paper draws on findings from a study of the diversity of classroom assessment "concourse", representing the variations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Educational Assessment, Classroom Techniques
Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Wei, Tianlan; Schmidt, Marcelo; Sheffield, Rebecca – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2014
Purpose: Few studies have examined the role of inclusivity in international assessments of student achievement, such as the TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study). The current study examined how the inclusivity of students with disabilities at the classroom level across countries may be associated with achievement scores,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Inclusion, Disabilities
Banta, Trudy W., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2014
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) Do Good Assessment Practices Measure Up to the Principles of Assessment?; (2) Healthy Assessment: What Nursing Schools Can Teach Us about Effective Assessment of Student Learning; (3) Development of a National Survey for Secondary Mathematics Teacher Education…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Student Evaluation
Furtak, Erin Marie; Morrison, Deb; Kroog, Heidi – Science Education, 2014
An increasing number of researchers are calling for learning progressions to be used as interpretive frameworks for teachers conducting classroom assessment. The argument posits that by linking classroom assessments to learning progressions, teachers will have better resources to interpret and take instructional action on the basis of what…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, High School Students, Educational Assessment, Biology
Mulligan, May Charmayne – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Higher education institutions are being pushed towards increased assessment practices because of rising costs, mass access, new delivery methods, and rising competition on the national and global scale. Academic deans and department heads are at the center of these assessment efforts, and assessment should guide changes within the organization for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Surveys, Questionnaires, Deans
National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2014
States with an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS) that received a flexibility waiver from some of the requirements of No Child Left Behind are required to phase out their use of this assessment. And, on August 23, 2013, the U.S. Department of Education published a proposed rollback of regulation that allowed the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, State Standards
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2014
Too often, boards spend too little time discussing student learning, student outcomes, and student success. As stewards of the whole of the institution, the oversight of educational quality is a primary obligation of governing boards. AGB--with support from the Teagle Foundation, an advisory committee, and teams from eight diverse…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governing Boards, Colleges, Educational Quality
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2014
As voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs have expanded in recent years, another promising development has been the incorporation, into more such programs, of provisions that hold participating private schools to account for their students' performance. The newest and largest voucher programs, such as those in Louisiana and Indiana, have gone…
Descriptors: Accountability, Private Schools, School Choice, Educational Vouchers
Council of the Great City Schools, 2014
The United States is transforming how it assesses the academic attainment of its schoolchildren. These changes will come, in part, with the implementation of the new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia (SBAC) assessments in the spring of 2015, as well as other…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Program Implementation
Reichman, Roxana G. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
The globalized world we live in has forced institutions of higher education and of teacher education to deal with different aspects of diversity. More and more institution have become involved in creating programs geared at promoting multiculturalism on campus, as well as in changing the curriculum in order to make it more relevant to students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Case Studies, Curriculum Development
Rhoades, Jeffrey T. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The community college baccalaureate and the university-center baccalaureate models are gaining traction in the state of California as alternatives to addressing the need for greater access to baccalaureate degree programs and to increase the baccalaureate-educated workforce. Little is known about the characteristics and factors associated with the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Case Studies, Undergraduate Study
Ridgeway, Lindsey McKinney – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this research study was to examine the role of the senior student affairs officer (SSAO) in promoting assessment practice within the Division of Student Life at Randal University. A qualitative, single-case study research design was employed to conduct this study. The case for this investigation was the Vice President for Student…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Administrator Role, Educational Assessment, Qualitative Research